Post: #8

The client is still in a very early alpha stage, so of course there are some bugs and unimplemented features. The main goals for this preview release were to see if the client is actually working on other computers, and to get some bug reports and maybe some development help. It is not intended to be a fully playable client yet.
Glad to hear it worked better with SA, which is also my development platform. Once the client reaches a more playable state compatibility to other UO versions and emulators gets more and more important; right now my focus is on implementing new features. But if you encounter bugs that are linked to specific emulators (or any other bugs, for that matter) please report them to the bug tracker at http://code.google.com/p/fluorescence/issues/list . Otherwise it is quite hard for me to keep track of all open issues. And of course I'm also glad to include patches.

Going 3d is one of the things I do not intend to do. I think that the big graphical makeovers of most new clients is what made them unpopular. Lots of people stick to UO because it looks charming, and familiar. So I'm trying to keep that UO feeling and only introduce enhancements to that. Furthermore, there is very good tool support for the classic client, and people are used to creating new content for it.

For the other 2 suggestions, I have better news for you
A config file to swap seasons is already planned, but not implemented yet. I feel that this is really one feature lots of people are missing in the OSI client.
The user interface is already fully soft-coded. You can find the XML definitions in the gumps folder, and modify them as you like. There is some documentation available at http://code.google.com/p/fluorescence/wiki/XMLGumpMenus ; but the format is very likely to be improved in the near future.